Example sentences of "was [adv] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 2 | But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand . |
| 3 | The wealth accumulated from the Empire was not always invested in a way which bettered the lot of artisans , and much investment was in land , property , and works of art . |
| 4 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 5 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 6 | When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared . |
| 7 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 8 | Since the beginning of the twentieth century , Chiswick was one of the homes of Sir Oswald Stoll 's ‘ Empire ’ theatres — another was at Shepherds Bush Green , which still remains as the B.B.C. 's television theatre — and although the Chiswick Empire was not always used for ‘ live ’ entertainment ( it became a cinema during the 1930s ) , it was one of the principle variety theatres in the Country and saw performances by all the principle artists from George Robey to Morecambe & Wise ; Petula Clark and Cliff Richards . |
| 9 | He was not always praised for deserting the naturalistic mode : old Mr Rent-a-Plot himself , John Mortimer , chastised him for doing precisely that in The Old Men at the Zoo . |
| 10 | The government secrecy sometimes extended to the people on the plant — the need to know was not always appreciated by those at the top — and the most serious accident was caused by a poorly conceived process change determined by another team . |
| 11 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 12 | It was nearly always organised by a government , although some torturers acted on their own initiatives . |
| 13 | In the writer 's experience of recording the practices of old farm horsemen the frog 's or toad 's bone was nearly always linked with the jading of a horse , and they used the repellent substances with the bone , which was either powdered or whole , in this practice . |
| 14 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 15 | But the movement was n't always welcomed with entirely open arms . |
| 16 | Like the syllabub , the fruit fool was almost always served in glasses or custard cups , although Susannah MacIver , an Edinburgh cookery teacher and author of an excellent little book called Cookery and Pastry , 5774 , directs that her gooseberry cream be served on an " asset " , the old Scots word for platter . |
| 17 | When the Authority intervened in the decisions of individual companies , it was almost always to insist on certain BBC-type standards , whether it was the retention of University Challenge or the compulsory broadcasting of the Queen 's Speech on Christmas Day . |
| 18 | Whether the arrogance of the rich toward intellectuals of a lower class is considered an economic issue may be argued ; however , the belief that satire was almost always used in the service of the rich is not tenable . |
| 19 | Establishing an overt research role was therefore always going to be a task of sisyphean labour , but the sensitivity of the topic and location made it more difficult than is usual in ethnographic research . |
| 20 | It was therefore always going to be a question of how many goals 'Mill were going to score . |